Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

• communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Manjaro is legitimately a terrible choice, github.com/arindas/manjarno

  I used to give manjaro to a lot of people because i was an arch user and supported a bunch of linux users, it was a massive mistake, arch is just a strictly better version of manjaro, the things manjaro claims to do it doesn’t do well because it’s just kind of hacked onto arch. Let me give you an example of something stupid that manjaro does:

  normally, in linux, all packages are upgraded centrally, however, manjaro has decided to make an exception for the kernel, and now the kernel is versioned, and each version upgrades separately… this can result in you being stuck with an ancient kernel. I had to go into peoples computers, boot into a console, manually swap out the kernel, and put on the latest one, because the updater wouldn’t update due to the newest drivers being incompatible with the old kernel.

  This happened enough times, that and the concerns raised in manjarno make me think it really isn’t for anyone.

  If you’re enough of an expert to fix these things… just use arch, it’s strictly better. If you don’t know what you’re doing, an arch based distro is a terrible choice and you should go with bazzite.

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  • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Very helpful, thank you!

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• Nednarb44@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I would recommend endeavor os with plasma instead honestly. Its a similar setup, but you won’t have to deal with manjaro holding back updates.

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  • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh okay! Thanks, that’s helpful. So EndeavorOS has pretty frequent updates then? I’m ngl since switching I look forward to them, which is funny! It’s like “oh cool my computer got better and also new toys instead of worse and more bloated!”

    Ahh I should’ve done this years ago but better late than never

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    • Nednarb44@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, it should get updates exactly the same as arch. And I’m the same way, I check for update every time I log in lol. It does feel nice that you’re always up to date

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